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JAPAN
Jun 11, 2003

Number of people over 75 topped 10 million in 2002

The number of people aged 75 and older topped 10 million for the first time last year in another sign Japanese society is steadily aging, the government said Tuesday in an annual report.
BUSINESS
Jun 10, 2003

Reform debate gets personal as boycott called

A rift between the national and local governments over decentralization appears to have developed into an unprecedented attempt to boycott products made by one of the nation's major consumer electronics makers.
JAPAN
Jun 4, 2003

Public weight to balance scales of justice?

Unlike Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's administrative and economic reform initiatives, which have seen slow going, his efforts to overhaul the judiciary have made steady progress.
JAPAN
Jun 4, 2003

Public weight to balance scales of justice?

Unlike Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's administrative and economic reform initiatives, which have seen slow going, his efforts to overhaul the judiciary have made steady progress.
BUSINESS
Jun 4, 2003

Bridgestone lands Airbus tire deal

Tire maker Bridgestone Corp. has secured its first contract with Airbus to supply the European aircraft maker with tires for its A380 superjumbo jets.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FRONT-RUNNERS
Jun 3, 2003

Sanyo charging ahead in cell phone battery sector

Chances are if you use a mobile phone equipped with a camera, it's powered by a Sanyo battery.
JAPAN
Jun 3, 2003

74 colleges plan to open law schools

Seventy-four public and private universities plan to open law schools next April as part of Japan's judicial system reform, with many private schools considering charging annual tuition of 1.5 million yen to 2 million yen, according to a recent Kyodo News survey.
BUSINESS
May 30, 2003

Hino, Penske form capital alliance

Truck maker Hino Motors Ltd. said Thursday it has formed a capital alliance with U.S.-based major leasing firm Penske Corp. to start full-fledged operations in North America.
BUSINESS
May 29, 2003

Sony unveils massive restructuring plans

Sony Corp. said Wednesday it will place more emphasis on flat TVs and DVD recorders and spend 300 billion yen on a massive restructuring drive over the next three years.
COMMENTARY
May 17, 2003

Long march back to China

LOS ANGELES -- History is full of irony for former empires. Historians of East Asia have maintained for some time that it was the Japanese war of aggression in China in the 1930s and 1940s that eventually drove the Chinese people into the arms of the Chinese Communist Party. After that, the equally forceful...
BUSINESS
Apr 29, 2003

JNOC to finance oil development

Japan National Oil Corp. said Monday it will invest in and grant a liability guarantee to affiliate Inpex Southwest Caspian Sea Ltd. to finance an oil development project in Azerbaijan.
BUSINESS
Apr 22, 2003

Sony unveils huge chip investment plan

Sony Corp. said Monday its group will invest 200 billion yen through March 2006 to produce cutting-edge semiconductors being jointly developed by IBM Corp. and Toshiba Corp.
BUSINESS
Apr 19, 2003

Digital broadcasting licenses issued

The government issued provisional licenses Friday to 17 television stations planning to begin terrestrial digital broadcasts in December.
BUSINESS
Apr 17, 2003

Asia economic forum set for Tokyo

The head of the World Economic Forum said Wednesday that the organizer of the Davos Forum plans to hold East Asia's annual regional economic summit in Tokyo in 2005 or 2006, according to Japanese officials.
JAPAN
Apr 10, 2003

School texts cite 9/11, toe line on SDF

The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States and subsequent war in Afghanistan are included in most high school textbooks that survived the latest round of screening by the education ministry.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 2, 2003

Two traders try to regroup together

Nissho Iwai Corp. and Nichimen Corp. merged under a new holding company Tuesday in a bid to rebuild their struggling businesses.
BUSINESS
Mar 19, 2003

Japan Oil Development set to file for sheltered rehabilitation

Japan Oil Development Co. will file for court protection from creditors under the fast-track Civil Rehabilitation Law, with an estimated debt of more than 400 billion yen, sources said Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 13, 2003

Seiko hopes to double its net profit

Watch maker Seiko Corp. said Wednesday its group net profit will more than double over the next three years under a new business plan through March 2006. By then, Seiko expects a group net profit of 8.5 billion yen, up from an estimated 3.5 billion yen profit for fiscal 2002.
BUSINESS
Mar 13, 2003

More BOJ stock-purchases eyed

The government plans to ask the Bank of Japan to increase purchases of bank-held stocks to combat falling share prices and head off a financial crisis stemming from a possible war in Iraq, and has asked the central bank to ease its credit grip, officials said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Mar 12, 2003

Coalition ranks hope to ditch reforms

Ruling coalition politicians stood ready Tuesday to urge Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to abandon promised reforms and sidestep internationally recognized mark-to-market accounting rules.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / INDUSTRY TRENDS
Mar 6, 2003

Lingerie firms hustling to open outlets as lights go out on major retailers

Major domestic underwear firms are aggressively expanding their direct retail operations, opening lingerie boutiques with French names, as well as bra kiosks at train stations.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 25, 2003

Businesses gear up to launch IP phone services

Roused into action by Softbank Corp.'s foray into Internet Protocol telephony last April, major telecommunications carriers and Internet service providers soon plan to launch their own commercial end-to-end IP phone services via broadband lines.
MORE SPORTS
Feb 14, 2003

Pavlicevic named Japan coach

The Japan Basketball Association said Wednesday it has hired Zeljko Pavlicevic of Croatia as the new manager for the men's national team on a four-year deal.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 14, 2003

Toray Industries chief puts faith in technological research

Sadayuki Sakakibara, president of Toray Industries Inc., is confident there are researchers at his company who have the potential to win a Nobel Prize, just like Shimadzu Corp.'s Koichi Tanaka.
BUSINESS
Feb 11, 2003

Nissho Iwai targets bonuses to shape up ahead of merger

Nissho Iwai Corp. has proposed to its union that it pay no bonuses to nonmanagement staff in the business year starting April 1, a move that would effectively cut their annual salaries by about 20 percent, company officials said Monday.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2003

Japan says goodbye to last land mine

By disposing of its last 25 antipersonnel mines Saturday, Japan becomes the 38th country to rid itself of the deadly devices.
BUSINESS
Feb 7, 2003

Home loan body to resell mortgages under draft law

The Government Housing Loan Corp. will be allowed to securitize and sell mortgages after buying them from private financial institutions, according to a proposal presented Thursday to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
Japan ruling bloc loses majority in Upper House after election drubbing
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who serves concurrently as president of the Liberal Democratic Party, leaves at the party's headquarters following announcement of Upper House election result projections in Tokyo early Monday.
‘Japanese First’ Sanseito emerges as powerful force after Upper House poll
Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya in Tokyo on Sunday night
Foreign residents closely follow Japan's election and party pledges
A police officer walks past posters of Liberal Democratic Party candidates, as well as one showing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, outside the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Sunday. As Japan’s foreign population continues to rise, one of the talking points during Sunday’s election was how the country should deal with the increase of international residents.
Japan’s top brands get tied up in the great sunscreen debate
A coral reef in Okinawa in July 2022. Some jurisdictions around the world have moved to ban certain sunscreens in a bid to protect coral reefs, but some say the impact on reefs is far from clear.
Hitomi Obara, 2012 Olympic champion in wrestling, dies at 44
Hitomi Obara competes at the London Olympics in August 2012.
Japan’s top brands get tied up in the great sunscreen debate
A coral reef in Okinawa in July 2022. Some jurisdictions around the world have moved to ban certain sunscreens in a bid to protect coral reefs, but some say the impact on reefs is far from clear.
Pentagon looks to unleash ‘military drone dominance’
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hosts a drone demonstration at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on July 10.
‘Noto Democracy’ and the slow work of civic change
Yukio Iokibe’s “Noto Democracy" centers on Motoyuki Takii, a former junior high school teacher who publishes a handwritten newspaper every month to encourage the residents of Anamizu, Ishikawa Prefecture, to engage in local politics.
In microbes we trust: Embracing the nature of fermented food
You don't need an oven to make Kenji Morimoto's easy and delicious Miso Sticky Toffee Crepe Cake.
Touring the Silk Road — without leaving Tokyo
One of the entrances to Pao Compound, a nine-story Silk Road-inspired complex in Tokyo's Higashinakano neighborhood

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

In 2020, 38% of all households were single-person. That figure is projected to rise to 44.3% by 2050.
The rise of AI companionship in a lonely Japan
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